Saying that there is a patriarchal bias, is to say that you percieve something inherently better about a larger brain. This advantage you attribute to sexual lines. That's not only sexist, but it belittle both men's and women's contributions to anthropology.
I'm not sure you are referring to me in particular, but I meant to merely question the basis of their apparent assumption that "male must be bigger". (Not true, see black widow spiders, but they don't have skeletons either.) But your saying it's usually true does help to substantiate their assumption.
I recall having seen it and being somewhat scared by the alien revealing himself in the bathroom while removing his contacts.
But IMO the show really jumped the shark when the writer/producers started exploring the "magical child" plotline. Heh--seems as if many a show has already passed its peak with the introduction of an infant.
Well, if you can't hide your base price, you cannot give your executives fat bonuses. The stock market, car dealerships, etc., should have taught us that. And I think rivalries, in particular in the semiconductor industry, are good examples of how prices really ought to fall when your market sector is (1) commoditized and (2) competitive.
On the other hand, the airline ticket prices in principle reflect other variables, such as fuel costs, so even their bottom line fluctuates somewhat.
Counterpoint? Count-counterpoint? Oh cr*p.
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Yeah, but if I now want to use a debit or credit card to pay, now the inventory is matched specifically to me. A response of "No, it won't" seems completely inaccurate to me because I have received store catalogs via postal mail after just a single purchase at a new store. i believe there must be ways to extract your billing address from the swipe of this little piece of plastic.
At first I thought the solution would be to pay with cold, hard cash, but alas, RFID tags embedded in the paper currency are likely inevitable (if not already advertised). (OT: Who says the govt won't mandate stores to track in the interest of "reviving the economy"? Oops, sorry for the small rant there).
Skimming the article gave me the sense that either the reporter's ideas or those of Bell and Gray are just all over the map.
One fact not mentioned is that planning for storage is already an integral part of planning a supercomputing center. Also not mentioned is another predictable outcome that generating lots of data eventually requires someone, or some thing (e.g., a beowulf cluster), to analyse it. Thus, under the present trends, data mining itself as well as development of method of *how* to data-mine are becoming increasingly important.
Where I would agree with Bell and Gray in principle is that we focus on *good* scientific problems. With more computers and faster computers, you can produce more and more crap with less and less thought. So, the issue becomes one of defining what good science is. Today it's defined in terms of politics, money, and peer review, not all mutually exclusive. But one thing to keep in mind is that the size of a research group doesn't necessarily correlate with the quality of the science produced therein.
But how does MS fit into all this? Pyschoanalysing them may cause a headache, but it wouldn't exactly be surprising if they are trying to kick IBM in the shin besides to bring down linux.
It would have been very cunning of MS if they had *not* bought a license from SCO and it turned out they are key in all this.
The CFO's last 5 sales, as reported by Y!
(http://biz.yahoo.com/t/76/82.html)
2003-04-08 4,100 SCOX Sale at $2.90 per share.
(Proceeds of $11,890)
2003-04-08 4,100 SCOX Planned Sale
(Estimated proceeds of $11,931)
2003-03-10 7,000 SCOX Planned Sale
(Estimated proceeds of $21,420)
2003-03-10 7,000 SCOX Sale at $3.06 per share. (Proceeds of $21,420)
2002-07-18 165,000 SCOX Acquisition (Non Open Market)
1. This is only going to help drive down cell phone prices, helping to make land lines obsolete once again. (This was likely to happen eventually anyway, right?) If the article is right and you can forward your conversations to any IP address (at an extra cost), the primary advantage cells have are mobility, such is the case now. Until, that is, when you think about wireless solutions and VoIP. Mmmmm...DHCP + VoIP:)
2. A brief search of the web suggests VoIP can be more secure than traditional telephony. To what extent will government fight this? Effectively having an SSH tunnel to the other caller wouldn't be appreciated by the gov't given the present modus operandi of the US.
3. VoIP is certainly a logical progression, and I don't see the big telcos going out of business soon. Where I live, there are just a few DSL providers but only one company (SBC) owns all the wires into the area. Their only real competitor is cable TV whom they are fighting tooth and nail to gain marketshare. I imagine access to wireless frequencies has very little competition (think: 802.11), but will there need to be legislation to keeping it open?
First I heard of this also. I have seen it where applicants have been strongly requested to submit only one of {s-mail, e-mail, web} versions, but I just thought this was to avoid confusion and extra work on their end.
That sure would be government biting the hand that feeds it. I can't see that happening with the pro=business view of the leader of the current Administration.
I was thinking along the same lines. This could be not only the first step of a "Matrix" but the actual Matrix itself. In principle, they could predict likely outcomes of your behavior based on your previously known preferences and reactions (think: web cookies, [e]mail tracking, cultural profiling, no anonymity, etc.) and base their policies on that.
IMO govt is just going to try to do whatever it takes to protect itself physically and politically from terrorists and citizens alike.
So who's got ideas for the potential use/market for these devices? Paranoid parents wanting to know their children's location at all times?
Yup, now you don't even have to get your children fingerprinted en masse in case they get abducted (or, in case they become a wanted criminal so you just consult your fingerprint database). Just have law enforcement turn on their tracker....
1. kidnap victim (particularly one of public importance or of substantial wealth)
2. operate on victim to install tracking device
3. release victim
4. Track victim to collect compromising evidence
5. Ask for ransom
6. Profit
Meanwhile, you open up or set up a collaboration with a chip removal facility.
7. Ask for ransom
8. Operate to possibly remove chip
9. Profit.
As far as I know, none of the other IA-32 motherboard manufacturers are making *dual* processor boards with 166 MHz (333 DDR) bus for use with 333 MHz DDR memory. Sure, there are plenty of IA-32 single cpu boards running bus and memory synchonously at DDR333, a few at DDR400, and even a few running DDR266 bus/333 memory asynchronously.
So my point is that Apple's offering, though somewhat expensive, is unique.
At first I thought "So what?" -- I already get tabs in Mozilla, so Firebird doesn't win points selling that as their first feature. But on reading further, I found listed the one feature I've wanted in mozilla for a long time: tab navigation.
It works similarly to Multi Gnome Terminal where you can switch between tabs using only the keyboard. I love it.
Artists don't see a dime until advances are paid back. Guess how advances in future royalties are paid back? You guessed it, sales of albums. If their album is being traded and fewer people are buying it, then the artist is not going to pay back those advances as quickly.
Surely there are other ways for artists to bring in money to pay off their loans.
Or are we saying that albums are of the highest profit margin (for the record company), as opposed to, say, concerts? I recall some discussion that before the likes of MTV, fans actually had to go to concerts to see their favorite performer. Sure, marketing today is multifaceted.
Or could it simply be that "albums" is the item spelled out in the contracts with artists?
for the record, this is posted on/. before the event. See this link over at NASA.
Summary: Atlantic Ocean, eastern half of the US, eastern third of Canada see the whole thing. People in Europe and Africa see it at moonset, while those in the rest of US and Canada see it at moonrise.
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What strikes me as a little odd is how the three skulls are while later they
I recall having seen it and being somewhat scared by the alien revealing himself in the bathroom while removing his contacts.
But IMO the show really jumped the shark when the writer/producers started exploring the "magical child" plotline. Heh--seems as if many a show has already passed its peak with the introduction of an infant.
McDonalds opened in the Midwest (Des Plaines, IL, acutally) in 1955.
Their 50 billionth hamburger was served in New York city in or around 1984.
That's ~30 years, or an average of 1 2/3 billion per year.
Well, if you can't hide your base price, you cannot give your executives fat bonuses. The stock market, car dealerships, etc., should have taught us that. And I think rivalries, in particular in the semiconductor industry, are good examples of how prices really ought to fall when your market sector is (1) commoditized and (2) competitive.
On the other hand, the airline ticket prices in principle reflect other variables, such as fuel costs, so even their bottom line fluctuates somewhat.
Yeah, but if I now want to use a debit or credit card to pay, now the inventory is matched specifically to me. A response of "No, it won't" seems completely inaccurate to me because I have received store catalogs via postal mail after just a single purchase at a new store. i believe there must be ways to extract your billing address from the swipe of this little piece of plastic.
At first I thought the solution would be to pay with cold, hard cash, but alas, RFID tags embedded in the paper currency are likely inevitable (if not already advertised). (OT: Who says the govt won't mandate stores to track in the interest of "reviving the economy"? Oops, sorry for the small rant there).
Except that the size of a "cup" of coffee can vary anywhere between 4 - 5.5 fluid oz. My coffee maker for example defines a cup as 5 oz, YMMV.
;)
It's a good thing there are standard definitions for us all to follow
but not great. Too bad this will probably correspond to a 40% price increase.
Skimming the article gave me the sense that either the reporter's ideas or those of Bell and Gray are just all over the map.
One fact not mentioned is that planning for storage is already an integral part of planning a supercomputing center. Also not mentioned is another predictable outcome that generating lots of data eventually requires someone, or some thing (e.g., a beowulf cluster), to analyse it. Thus, under the present trends, data mining itself as well as development of method of *how* to data-mine are becoming increasingly important.
Where I would agree with Bell and Gray in principle is that we focus on *good* scientific problems. With more computers and faster computers, you can produce more and more crap with less and less thought. So, the issue becomes one of defining what good science is. Today it's defined in terms of politics, money, and peer review, not all mutually exclusive. But one thing to keep in mind is that the size of a research group doesn't necessarily correlate with the quality of the science produced therein.
I agree with that last paragraph.
But how does MS fit into all this? Pyschoanalysing them may cause a headache, but it wouldn't exactly be surprising if they are trying to kick IBM in the shin besides to bring down linux.
It would have been very cunning of MS if they had *not* bought a license from SCO and it turned out they are key in all this.
The CFO's last 5 sales, as reported by Y!
(http://biz.yahoo.com/t/76/82.html)
2003-04-08 4,100 SCOX Sale at $2.90 per share. (Proceeds of $11,890)
2003-04-08 4,100 SCOX Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $11,931)
2003-03-10 7,000 SCOX Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $21,420)
2003-03-10 7,000 SCOX Sale at $3.06 per share. (Proceeds of $21,420)
2002-07-18 165,000 SCOX Acquisition (Non Open Market)
1. This is only going to help drive down cell phone prices, helping to make land lines obsolete once again. (This was likely to happen eventually anyway, right?) If the article is right and you can forward your conversations to any IP address (at an extra cost), the primary advantage cells have are mobility, such is the case now. Until, that is, when you think about wireless solutions and VoIP. Mmmmm...DHCP + VoIP :)
2. A brief search of the web suggests VoIP can be more secure than traditional telephony. To what extent will government fight this? Effectively having an SSH tunnel to the other caller wouldn't be appreciated by the gov't given the present modus operandi of the US.
3. VoIP is certainly a logical progression, and I don't see the big telcos going out of business soon. Where I live, there are just a few DSL providers but only one company (SBC) owns all the wires into the area. Their only real competitor is cable TV whom they are fighting tooth and nail to gain marketshare. I imagine access to wireless frequencies has very little competition (think: 802.11), but will there need to be legislation to keeping it open?
First I heard of this also. I have seen it where applicants have been strongly requested to submit only one of {s-mail, e-mail, web} versions, but I just thought this was to avoid confusion and extra work on their end.
Rick Dees?!? Ohhhhhhhh.....you said MARTIN Dees.
For a second there I was thinking this was going to be about the Weekly Top 40 Theories of the Universe program.
That sure would be government biting the hand that feeds it. I can't see that happening with the pro=business view of the leader of the current Administration.
The US has been having its woes from terrorism and the economic downturn.
Why aren't the government trying to expel all foreign nationals, freeing up jobs for the indiginous populace?
(Just a thought for consistency sake; I don't necessarily agree.)
I was thinking along the same lines. This could be not only the first step of a "Matrix" but the actual Matrix itself. In principle, they could predict likely outcomes of your behavior based on your previously known preferences and reactions (think: web cookies, [e]mail tracking, cultural profiling, no anonymity, etc.) and base their policies on that.
IMO govt is just going to try to do whatever it takes to protect itself physically and politically from terrorists and citizens alike.
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So who's got ideas for the potential use/market for these devices? Paranoid parents wanting to know their children's location at all times?
Yup, now you don't even have to get your children fingerprinted en masse in case they get abducted (or, in case they become a wanted criminal so you just consult your fingerprint database). Just have law enforcement turn on their tracker....
1. kidnap victim (particularly one of public importance or of substantial wealth)
2. operate on victim to install tracking device
3. release victim
4. Track victim to collect compromising evidence
5. Ask for ransom
6. Profit
Meanwhile, you open up or set up a collaboration with a chip removal facility.
7. Ask for ransom
8. Operate to possibly remove chip
9. Profit.
Repeat as needed.
As far as I know, none of the other IA-32 motherboard manufacturers are making *dual* processor boards with 166 MHz (333 DDR) bus for use with 333 MHz DDR memory. Sure, there are plenty of IA-32 single cpu boards running bus and memory synchonously at DDR333, a few at DDR400, and even a few running DDR266 bus/333 memory asynchronously.
So my point is that Apple's offering, though somewhat expensive, is unique.
That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks to all who responded.
At first I thought "So what?" -- I already get tabs in Mozilla, so Firebird doesn't win points selling that as their first feature. But on reading further, I found listed the one feature I've wanted in mozilla for a long time: tab navigation.
It works similarly to Multi Gnome Terminal where you can switch between tabs using only the keyboard. I love it.
I'm going to try Firebird now.
Or are we saying that albums are of the highest profit margin (for the record company), as opposed to, say, concerts? I recall some discussion that before the likes of MTV, fans actually had to go to concerts to see their favorite performer. Sure, marketing today is multifaceted.
Or could it simply be that "albums" is the item spelled out in the contracts with artists?
for the record, this is posted on /. before the event. See this link over at NASA.
Summary: Atlantic Ocean, eastern half of the US, eastern third of Canada see the whole thing. People in Europe and Africa see it at moonset, while those in the rest of US and Canada see it at moonrise.